Agenda highlights - Competitiveness Council (Internal market and industry), 29 September 2022,and more...

 

Press material Friday 23 September 2022

● General Secretariat   23/09/2022 16:04 | Press release | Forward look: 26 September 2022 - 9 October 2022   Overview of the main topics and events at the Council of EU and European Council for the coming fortnight. Agriculture and Fisheries Council, 26 September 2022 EU agriculture ministers will meet in Brussels to discuss the situation of agricultural production and logistics in Ukraine and transport routes to the EU. For this discussion they will be joined by Mykola Solsky, Ukrainian Minister for Agrarian Policy and Food. Ministers will moreover exchange views on fishing opportunities for next year, including on fish stocks shared with the United Kingdom and EU-Norway annual consultations for 2023. Read more Competitiveness Council (Internal market and industry), 29 September 2022 Competitiveness ministers responsible for internal market and industry will meet in Brussels to discuss the single market emergency instrument (SMEI) and the ecodesign for sustainable products regulation (ESPR). Read more Extraordinary Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (Energy), 30 September 2022 EU energy ministers will aim to reach a political agreement on a proposal for a Council regulation on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices. Read more Economic and Financial Affairs Council, 4 October 2022 The Council will discuss the economic situation and high energy prices. It will aim to agree its position on the REPowerEU proposal. It will also approve conclusions on climate finance ahead of COP 27. Read more Informal meeting of heads of state or government, Prague, 7 October 2022 EU leaders will mainly focus on the following three topics: Ukraine, energy and economy. Read more Other events Eurogroup, 3 October 2022 Meeting of the European Political Community, 6 October 2022 Indicative calendar of meetings under the Czech presidency (1 July - 31 December 2022)

Meetings Friday 23 September 2022

● Council of the EU   23/09/2022 16:54 | MEETING | Agenda highlights - Competitiveness Council (Internal market and industry), 29 September 2022   Ministers responsible for internal market and industry will meet in Brussels to discuss the single market emergency instrument (SMEI) and the ecodesign for sustainable products regulation (ESPR).

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Council of the EU
Competitiveness Council (Internal market and industry), 29 September 2022

Agenda highlights


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Single market emergency instrument (SMEI)

Ministers will kick off with a policy debate on the upcoming proposal for a single market emergency instrument (SMEI), which the European Commission presented on 19 September 2022.European Commission proposal for a regulation establishing a Single Market emergency instrument and repealing Council Regulation No (EC) 2679/98
How the EU responds to crises and builds resilience (background information)
EU single market (background information)


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Ecodesign regulation

Ministers will have a policy debate on the proposal for ecodesign for sustainable products regulation (ESPR), which was presented by the European Commission in March 2022.

The ESPR aims to make almost all physical goods on the EU market (except food, feed and medicines) more environment-friendly, circular, and energy-efficient.Climate change: what the EU is doing (background information)
European Commission proposal for ecodesign for sustainable products regulation
Also on the agenda

Under AOB, the German delegation will inform ministers on a proposal for a ‘European Alliance for Transformation Technologies’ and the French and German delegations will present a joint non-paper on securing critical raw material supply.

Over lunch, ministers will discuss the resilience of the single market in the context of the war in Ukraine.


Meeting information

Meeting n°3896
Brussels
29 September 2022
09:30
Preparatory documentsProvisional agenda
Provisional agenda - COR1